i agree this is lame. i've been out of the country for awhile and must have missed the discussion about name changes.
also, since when have all posts been moderated? there have been a couple waves of spam to hit the list but nothing really warranting full moderation of the list. i don't feel comfortable reading a mailing list that is moderated, where someone else is deciding what i should and shouldn't read. i can handle trolls and spam on my own thanks. surely many of the SIGLinux members out there agree with us that this new setup isn't optimal... Paul Sack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it *really* necessary to change the SIG's name to SIGFree? This is > making it more difficult, not less difficult, for newbies to find out > about this group's existence. I found out about this group by typing > ``linux'' into UT's search page. Further, most people in this group have > no problem with whether someone calls the operating system Linux or > GNU/Linux or even just Debian. I imagine the reasons have to do w/ RMS & > ESR politics, and it would be nice if that could be left to Slashdot and > comp.os.linux.luser^Wadvocacy. (Note that there is no comp.os.gnulinux.* > hierarchy. This is not an oversight.) > > SIGFree, on face, sounds at best like a FreeBSD SIG, which it's not. > > According to the SIGFree web page: > The purpose of the change is to avoid the idea that a GNU/Linux system > is called a Linux system. > > I have called it Linux, and I have been using it since 1995. Everyone else > I know calls it Linux. If for no other reason than that is quicker to say > and easier for the clueless to remember. > > If you have to be a pedant, then let's call it SigGNULinux or SigLinux. > (The operating system is not called ``free'' either.) > > (BTW, Jeff, you might not want to link to www.linux.org on the web page - > they refer to the operating system as ``Linux.'') > > HTH. HAND. > > P.S. I talked offline to two other list members. Both also thought this > new name is idiotic. > > -- > Don't change the reason, just change the excuses! > -- Joe Cointment > > > _______________________________________________ > Sigfree mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/sigfree -- tom carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Before a mad scientist goes mad, there has to be a period when he is only partially mad, and that's when he throws his best parties." _______________________________________________ Sigfree mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/sigfree
